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Google Web Toolkit -- only for Gmail type applications?

I am trying to build a web application, similar in feel to something like GMail, with one persistent AJAXy page. I am told that GWT is the way to do this most effectively. However, I also want a framework that I can use for other things besides single AJAXy pages. Is GWT more scalable than this, or should I spend the time and build this...

Adding JSON results to a drop down list with JQUERY

I'm making a call to a page method via AJAX in my ASP.NET application via JQUERY's AJAX method e.g. $.ajax({ type: "POST", url: "page.aspx/GetDropDowns", data: "{'aId':'1'}", contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8", dataType: "json", success: function(msg) { alert(msg.d); ...

Should I switch to ASP.NET?

Hi, I'm a web developer currently using mainly JavaScript and HTML and I use various bits of backend PHP or servlets when I need to. I get the impression a lot of people are using ASP.NET and it seems to have a big community and lots of re-usable components and widgets. Should I make the switch to ASP.NET? What else should I take into ...

Firefox 3.5 warns that page contains unauthenticated content

We are receiving the warning in FF 3.5 that warns of unencrypted content (partially encrypted page). We never received any such warning in FF 3.0. The page we are loading does a single get request for an HTML page using https, no other requests are made for things like CSS, JS, Images, etc. Has anyone else experienced this problem with...

Is there a way to force svcutil.exe to ignore SSL certificate issues?

I need svcutil.exe to generate a proxy class for me, but the problem is that the web service can be accessed only via HTTPS and the SSL certificate is self signed. How can I force svcutil.exe to ignore this issue? ...

Making a browser toolbar?

I would like to make a browser toolbar like google toolbar for my website. It should be compatible with all popular browsers. Which language should I use to make it? Is there any examples/guides I could use? ...

why "»" shows as a question mark("?") in my page?

Is there any restrictions for it to show normally? ...

ASP.NET JSON Web Service Response format

I have written one simple web service which get product list in JSONText which is string object Web Service code is below using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Web; using System.Web.Services; using System.Web.Script.Services; using System.Runtime.Serialization.Json; using System.IO; using System.Text; /// <sum...

Web testing frameworks for ASP.NET web application

I'm trying to implement some front end testing in a ASP.NET web application, and I would like to know how do the several web testing frameworks compare. Especially MSTest's "Web Tests", because I haven't seen a lot of info about them, and since it seems to have a nice integration with Visual Studio. Related posts: WatiN or Selenium? Wat...

Architecture that can be used for Web/Windows/WPF

I need to create an application whose business logic can be used in WEB/WPF apps is there any standard way to do that. I am a Newb to patterns and have been thinking around in the concept of patterns and frameworks. I donot want to reinvent the wheel.:) Any Ideas?. ...

How to call IMsRdpClient5::GetErrorDescription method from VBScript

I'm using the RDP ActiveX control in a web page to open remote desktop connections. Here is the code I using but it doesn't work, it gets stuck when calling the GetErrorDescription method: <script language="vbscript"> sub MsRdpClient_OnDisconnected(disconnectCode) dim error_message extendedDiscReason = MsRdpClient.Ext...

Web Service needs to execute Access Application

I have a web service running on the server and the web service needs to shell out and run a gui application. This application runs on it's own, but it has some windows that it pops up to display. Currently as soon as the application gets to any point where is pops up a window, the application dies. ...

Is SOAP obsolete?

What is the current best practice for implementing Web Services? Is it still with SOAP? Windows Communication Framework is seemingly better, but isn't it SOAP under the covers? ...

REST Web Service - Website authentication

I have been working on a service that allows registered users to store data and retrieve it using an JavaScript XML Request. Basically, my service has one part that receives that product details and one part that returns them as XML on request. What I am trying to do is prevent people from accessing other users product details. So if on...

web front-end for database

I'd like to know if there is some open source web front-end for databases. I'd like something where queries can be executed from a web browser, only read-only queries are fine. If possible it would be great to be able to select with a gui the columns that are displayed as the result of the query. As several people asked me, I use Oracle...

scala / lift example of form processing

Can I get a simple example of a Lift form submission and processor? I've seen the Lift hello world, which was pretty trivial and didn't really give a flavor for how it works. I'm coming from a spring MVC background, but I have some FP experience. ...

Should I be using the xfire plugin with Gralis or is there a better way?

I have a web service in Grails, published using the xfire plugin. It's all fine and can be connected to no problem at all. But I'd like to modify the format of the request and response. Is that possible? The example structure is: Domain class Person, has many Siblings. Each Sibling has a Child. My web serice method currently looks som...

Making an element "fixed" if it's being scrolled out

So, I have an element on a webpage that is located under some other elements. This element should, whenever it hits the top of the page be fixed (ie. it shouldn't leave the view.) I've seen this being done on the Webkit Inspector in the resources tab. Does anyone know how to replicate this feature/effect? ...

Any good C/C++ web toolkit ?

I've been looking around and came across the WT toolkit, Is it stable? Any good? I was stumped on how to go about this in C++, given the lack of libraries and resources concerning web developement. (CGI/Apache) The purpose of my application is to populate some data from a Sybase ASE15 database running GNU/Linux & Apache Hence allow some...

Best technology to create web forms and reports on top of a Dynamics AX backend?

Want to create web sites with data on Dynamics AX. We want not to pay for Enterpise Portal or SHarepoint an do our own web app on top of AX. ...